Joan Martí - Curriculum Vitae#

Present position: Professor of Research
Organisation: National Research Council of Spain, CSIC
Institute: Institute of Earth Sciences (Jaume Almera)
Department: Geophysical and Geological Modelling and Geohazards

Languages:

Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian

Professional preparation:

• B.Sc. in Geology, Faculty of Geology, University of Barcelona, 1979
  
• B.Sc. Honours in Geology, University of Barcelona, 1982
  
• Ph.D: Geological Sciences, University of Barcelona, 1986

Current position
Professor of Research, National Research Council of Spain, CSIC and co-ordinator of the Group of Volcanology of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Barcelona

Previous positions

• 1981-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Barcelona
  
• 1987-1989 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Geology (Jaume Almera), CSIC
  
• February 1989-January 1999, Tenure Scientist, National Research Council of Spain, CSIC, Institute of Earth Sciences, Barcelona
  
• January 1999-June 2001, Senior Scientist, National Research Council of Spain, CSIC, Institute of Earth Sciences, Barcelona
  
• February 1995-March 1998, Head of the Department of Natural Hazards
  
• Since March 1998, Director of the Laboratory of Simulation of Geological Processes (SIMGEO), CSIC-University of Barcelona

Relevant responsibilities

• Secretary of the Scientific Commission for the preservation of the La Garrotxa Quaternary Volcanic Field, 1985-1986
  
• Director of the Postgraduate course of Volcanology, organised by the University of Barcelona, 1987 and 1988
  
• Director de International Course of Volcanology and Volcanic Geophysics, organised by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) in collaboration with Casa de los Volcanes (Lanzarote), ICI, ICONA, IAVCEI y UNESCO. 1989-1992
  
• Director of the International Field Course in the Central Andes: Field recognition of volcanic structures and their products, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina, 1994 and 1995
  
• Member of the Evaluation Panel of the EC III FP (section Natural Hazards), call 1993
  
• Chief of the Department of Natural Hazards of the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera CSIC, from February 1995 to March 1998
  
• Member of the Evaluation Panel of the EC IV FP (section Natural Hazards), call 1996
  
• Member of the Executive Committee of the IAVCEI Commission on Explosive Volcanism, 1993-1997
  
• Director of the Laboratory of Simulation of Geological Processes (SIMGEO, UB-CSIC), since 2000
  
• Co-Chair IAVCEI Commission on Oceanic Islands, 2001-2004.
  
• Editor in Chief of Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (Elsevier), since 2007
  
• Associated Editor of Natural Hazards and Earth Sciences Studies (NHESS) (European Geosciences Union), 2004-2012
  
• Secretary of the Volcanic Hazards Section of the EGU (2004-2007)
  
• Secretary of the Volcanology Section of the Spanish Commission of Geodesy and Geophysics, since 2006
  
• Secretary General of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth Interior (IAVCEI), since 2007
  
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Interational Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), since 2007.
  
• Invited Professor at the Master Course of Geological Hazards of the University of Barcelona, since 2007
  
• Scientific advisor of the VII EC Framework Programme (Natural Hazards), 2009-2013
  
• President of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Service National d’Observation en Volcanologie CNRS-INSU, France, since June 10, 2010
  
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the UE 7PM MIAVITA project (2009-2012)
  
• Member of the Executive Committee of the IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC) for the period 2011-2015
  
• Member of Editorial Board of the Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, since 2012

Professional affiliations

• Spanish Geological Society (honorary member)
  
• Geological Society of America, since 1984
  
• Institució Catalana d'Historia Natural, since 1985
  
• American Geophysical Union, since 1989
  
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earths Interior (life member)
  
• European Geosciences Union (EGU), since 2003

Honours and distinctions

• "Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura" award. University of Barcelona, 1982
  
• PhD Fellowship Award, Generalitat de Catalunya, 1985
  
• Doctorate Award, University of Barcelona, 1986
  
• European Science Exchange Programme. The Royal Society of London Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK. 1988.
  
• Fleming Award. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia - British Council. University of Bristol, U.K.. 1989-1990.
  
• Individual Fellowship (Human Capital and Mobility), CEE (DG XII). University of Bristol, U.K. 1993-1995.

Research lines

• Physical volcanology
  
• Explosive volcanism
  
• Volcanic hazards
  
• Geological hazards

Expertise

• Dynamics of magma chambers and collapse calderas
  
• Experimental and numerical modelling of volcanic processes
  
• Volcanic hazard assessment and risk management

Funding profile (last 10 years)

• Full Partner of the EC contract IST-2000-26450 (2001-2004) (Ability enlargement for geophysicists and information technology specialists) (2.2 M€)
  
• PI MCyT (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology) (REN2001-0502 / RIES) project. (2001-2004) (Pre-eruptive conditions of the Tenerife phonolitic magmas) (95000 €)
  
• Full Partner of the EU (EVG1-CT-2002-00058) contract. (2002-2005) (Processes and timescales of magma evolution in volcanic systems (ERUPT) (1.2 M€)
  
• Contractor of the EU (EVR1-2001-00047) contract. (2003-2005) (Explosive eruption risk and decision support for EU populations threatened by volcanoes (EXPLORIS) (2.1 M€)
  
• PI MCyT (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology) (BTE-2003-08026) contract (2003-2006) (Tectonic evolution of Tenerife: Implications on geological risks and hydrogeology) (101000 €)
  
• PI MEC (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) (CGL-2004-23200E) contract (2005-2008) (Elaboration of hazards maps and eruptive scenarios for the Canary Islands) (250000 €)
  
• PI MEC (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) (CGL.2005-03511/BTE) contract (2005-2008) (Physical volcanology of the calc-alkaline volcanism of the Cabo de Gata (GATAVOLC) (60000 €).
  
• PI MEC (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) (CGL-2006-13830) (2006-2009)(Geological risks on Tenerife (TENERISK) (59000 €)
  
• PI MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation) (CGL2008-04264/BTE) contract, (2009-2011) (Hazard assessment of explosive activity at Teide (EXPLOTEI) (150000 €).
  
• Collaboration research project CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) and IGN (Spanish Geographical Institute) (2008-2010) (Characterisation of volcanic activity in Tenerife) (120000 €)
  
• PI MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation) (CTM2009-05919-E/ANT) contract (2010-2011) (Revision of the structure and volcanology of Deception Island, Antarctica) (26000 €)
  
• PI MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation) (CGL2010-22022-C02-02) project (2011-2013) (Understanding the plutonic-volcanic connexion in caldera systems). Revision of geophysical studies of caldera complexes to investigate the internal structure and rock mechanics of such geological systems, so it complements proposed work on tectonic constraints of large silicic calderas. (250000 €)
  
• Contractor of the EU (FP7-ENV-2011 282729) contract (2011-2015) (Volcanic Unrest in Europe and Latin America: Phenomenology, eruption precursors, hazard foreCast, and risk mitigatiOn (VUELCO) (3.5 M€)
  

Invited presentations and organisation of international meetings

• Chairperson session Caldera Structures, Syposium on "Calderas and Volcanoes: genesis, structure and unrest", European Geophysical Society XIV General Assembly. Barcelona, March 1989.
  
• Invited talk “Canarian Calderas: The Las Cañadas Caldera Mode”l at the European Science Fundation Meeting on Canarian Volcanism Lanzarote, December 1-2 1989
  
• Convener Session SE17 "Active Volcanic Areas in Europe", General Assembly European Geophysical Society, Weisbaden, Germany, May 3-7, 1993.
  
• Coordinator of the International Workshop on Vesiculation and Degassing in Magmas, organised by the EC, Tenerife, May 9-13, 1993.
  
• Invited talk “Secondary volcaniclastics: processes, deposits and significance", at the IAVCEI General Assembly, Session 11, Canberra (Australia), September 25-Agost 1, 1993.
  
• Invited talk “Las Cañada caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands)", at the 4th International Meeting on the Colima Volcano, Colima (México), January 24-28, 1994.
  
• Coordinator of the "Workshop on explosive eruptions in phonolitic magmas, Tenerife, Canary Islands)". IAVCEI Commission on Explosive Volcanism. Tenerife, April 23-30, 1995.
  
• Convener Symposia “Neogene volcanism: geotectonic setting, volcanic edifices, processes and evolution” Xth Congress Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy, Bucaresti, 4-8 September 1995
  
• Invited talk "2nd Worshop on the European Laboratory Volcanoes EU-ESF, Santorini, May 2-4, 1996
  
• Convenor Session "Pressure-temperature-time constraints on oceanic island magmatism" Chapman Conference on Shallow level processes in oceanic islands magmatism: Distinguishing mantle and crustal signatures, Tenerife, November 11-16, 1996
  
• Member of the Organising Committee. IAVCEI General Assembly, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, January 20-24 , 1997
  
• Convener of the Symposium on Pre-eruptive processes, XXIII General Assembly, European Geophysical Society, Acropolis, Nice, France, April 20-24 , 1998
  
• Organiser IAVCEI Workshop on Geology and Geophysics of Tenerife (Canary Islands), May 10-15 , 1998
  
• Organiser International Workshop on the Tenerife Drilling Project, ICDP, Sitges (Barcelona, Spain), January 10-14, 1999,
  
• Invited talk at the Workshop on Evaluating magmatic processes by laboratory experiments, physical modelling and field measurements", Organised by the Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the University of Rome, Rome, June 26-29, 2001.
  
• Moderator of the round table on "Volcanology and Natural Hazards", The Ultraperiphery regions in the European Research, European Commission, Gran Canaria, June 24-25, 2002.
  
• Organising committee of the ICDP International Workshop on Deep Drilling in Volcanic Ocean Islands, 5-7 July 2002, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
  
• Plenary talk at the Internacional workshop on "Volcanology and Natural Hazards at the European ultraperipheric regions", organised by the European Commission, Gran Canaria, June 24-25 de junio de 2002.
  
• Invited talk on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Volcanic Risk Assessment and Management (NH5 0.9), EGU 1st General Assembly, Nice, France, April 25-30, 2004.
  
• Invited talk Session on "Volcano-Tectonics", EGU, General Assembly, Vienna, April 25-29, 2005
  
• Organising committee of the 1st International Workshop on Caldera Volcanism, IAVCEI, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 16-20, 2005
  
• Invited talk International Symposium "Reducing Volcanic Risk in Islands", June 2-5, 2004, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
  
• Co-Convener, Sesion "Multidisciplinary approaches in volcanic hazard forecasting and risk mitigation", EGU, General Assembly, Vienna, April 25-29, 2005
  
• Co-Convener, Session "Volcanic Hazards", EGU, General Assembly, Vienna, 3-7 April 2006
  
• Co-Convener, Session "Volcanic Hazards", EGU, General Assembly, Vienna, 16-20 April 2007
  
• Keynote Speaker Symposium “ The existence of magma chambers: an overview of current evidence”, EU Project VOLUME, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, 17-18 October 2007.
  
• Keynote, 2nd IAVCEI International Workshop on Caldera Volcanism, La Muralla, Queretaro, México, 18 al 23 de octubre de 2008.
  
• Co-Convener, Session on Caldera Volcanism, IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland, 17-23 August 2008.
  
• Invited talk "On magmas, magma chambers, and other stories", 19th International Workshop on Volcano-Seismology", IASPEI/IAVCEI Commission on Volcano-Seismology, Pico (Açores), 9-20 September, 2009.
  
• Invited participation to the "International Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction: Dialogue between Scientists and Stakeholders", UNISDR-EU, 28-29 October 2009, Brussels.
  
• Invited talk “Forecasting and Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions”, IUGG, GA. Melbourne, Australia, June 28-July 7, 2011.
  
• Member of the organising committee of the IUGG GA . Melbourne, Australia, June 28-July 7, 2011.
  
• Convener Symposium “Forecasting and Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions”, IUGG GA. Melbourne, Australia, June 28-July 7, 2011
  
• Convener Symposium “Understanding Big Volcanic Systems”, IUGG GA . Melbourne, Australia, June 28-July 7, 2011
  
• Member of the scientific committee IV International Workhsop on Collapse Calderas (IAVCEI), Volsena, Italy, September 2012.
  
• Member of the scientific committee Cities on Volcanoes 7 (IAVCEI), Colima, México, November 2012.
  
• Member of the scientific committee Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth Interior (IAVCEI), Kagoshima, Japan, July 10-14, 2013
  
• Member of the scientific committee of STRATI 2013, First International Congress on Stratigraphy. On the cutting edge of Stratigraphy. ICS/IUGS, Lisbon, July 3-6 , 2013.
  
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 5th International Maar Conference, IAVCEI, Queretaro, México, November 17-22, 2014
  
• Organiser of the GEORISK 2014 International Conference, GRC IUGG Commission, Madrid, Spain, November 17-21, 2014 Research expeditions
  
• Reconnaissance expedition (CSIC, Spain; CONICET, Argentine; IGN, Spain) to the Negra Muerta and Aguas Calientes calderas, Argentine (March 2009)
  
• Joint leader with Gerardo Aguirre (UNAM, México) of the international geological mapping expeditions of the graben calderas and associated giant ignimbrites of the Sierra Madre Occidental, México (November 2007, 2008 and 2009
  
• Leader of the expedition (ICTJA, CSIC) to Deception Island caldera, Antartica (January-February 2011)

Membership to Editorial Boards of International Journals

• Associated Editor, Natural Hazards and Earth Sciences Studies, NHESS, EGU, since 2004
  
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Elsevier, since 2007.
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, since 2012 PhD and Master Thesis Supervisor Supervisor of 19 PhD Thesis and 9 Master Thesis Relevant Teaching Activities
  
• Director of the International Course on Volcanology and Volcanic Geophysics, organised by the CSIC in collaboration with the House of Volcanoes (Lanzarote), ICI, IAVCEI and UNESCO. From 1989 to 1993.
  
• Visiting Professor, Course for Post-graduates on "Dynamics of volcanic systems", Department of Geology, University of Bristol, January-March 1994.
  
• Director: "International Field Course in the Central Andes: Field recognition of volcanic structures and Their products", National University of Salta, Salta, Argentina, in November 1994 and November 1995
  
• Professor at the Advanced Study Course on Volcanic Hazards Assessment, Monitoring and Risk Mitigation, European Commission, Environment and Climate Programme, S.Miguel Island, Azores, June 7-14, 1998
  
• Professor at the Training Workshop on Caldera Unrest. May 7-18, 2001, Naples (Italy), Organised by the EU Training Network “Volcano Dynamics in Relation to Hazards Mitigation Monitoring and Volcano Crisis Response".
  
• Professor of the course "Geological hazards: a basis for effective management", College of Doctors and Graduates in Philosophy and Science of Catalonia. Barcelona, from 12-02-2001 to 31-05-2001.
  
• Coordinator of the course "The Volcanoes of Tenerife", Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 17-21 October 2001. Funded by the MCyT and organised by the Natural Science Museum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
  
• Invited Professor at the Adeje Summer University, University of La Laguna (Tenerife). Course "The South: natural and territorial structure" lecture " Volcanological evolution and volcanic hazards at the southwest of Tenerife", 15-18 July 2002.
  
• Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course "The Physics of Volcanoes" (CSIC, Institute of Earth Sciences "Jaume Almera"). Volcanoes Natural Park of La Garrotxa (Olot, Girona), 7-11 July 2003.
  
• Invited Professor, International Course on Volcanology and Volcanic Geophysics Organised by the CSIC and the House of Lanzarote Volcanoes sponsored by UNESCO and IAVCEI, Tenerife, Lanzarote, October-November 2003, May-June 2004, and May-June 2005
  
• Professor of the course “The Explosive Volcanism Tenerife”, organised by the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 16 to 19 October 2003
  
• Professor of the Course: Volcanic Risk Assessment and Management at Tenerife organised by the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, May 20-22, 2004.
  
• Coordinator of the Training Course on Volcanism, organized by the Natural Park of the Volcanoes of La Garrotxa (Olot, Girona) and the University of Girona, 5-9 July 2004.
  
• Director I International Seminar: Living with Volcanoes: Risks, benefits and environment. 26-28 October 2006, Olot (Girona), and International Consortium University Menendez Pelayo of Barcelona.
  
• Director II International Seminar: Living with Volcanoes: Risks, benefits and environment. 4-6 October 2007, Olot (Girona), and International Consortium University Menendez Pelayo de Barcelona.
  
• Director III International Seminar: Living with Volcanoes: Risks, benefits and environment. 2-4 October 2008, Olot (Girona), and International Consortium University Menendez Pelayo de Barcelona.
  
• Professor of the Master on Geological Hazards, Faculty of Geology, University of Barcelona, since 2007.
  
• Professor of the course: Introduction to the study of volcanic processes and products. UCLM, Faculty of Arts, Ciudad Real, 20-24 April 2009.
  
• Invited Professor of at the III International Course of the Atlantic Islands, Cabildo de Lanzarote, Lanzarote, August 31 to September 4, 2009.
  
• Professor of the 1st IAVCEI International Course on collapse calderas. La Reunion, France, 1 to 3 October 2010
  
• Professor of the 2nd IAVCEI International Course on collapse calderas. Bolsena, Italy, 20-23 September 2012
  
• Director of Postgraduate Course on Volcanology. University of Girona. Olot (Girona). since 2012.